[svlug] Network aware tape backup solution

[David E. Fox]

On Thu, 03 Sep 1998, you wrote:

>Translation: I have a number of Linux boxes, x86, Alpha, etc.  I have
>have some DAT drives.  I'd like to drive the DAT drive remotely across

Well, the device name is going to be different under Linux, of
course. (/dev/rft0 for ftape, for example.)

If you can, on the host machine, write to its tape with tar or
cpio, then a simple network solution would probably be an incantation
of something along the lines of:

tar -cf /directory - | rsh otherhost dd if=- of=/dev/tapedevice

(I haven't tried this, but I see incantations like this all the time
over in comp.unix.admin, from time to time.)

Your mileage may vary - in fact you may want to experiment a bit with
that command. In particular, you may need to block the dd(1) output
(-bsize ###) for reasonable performance.

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